Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 45754, John Fann, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass -
Fann, John
S 45754
CONTENTS

45754
Rev
INVALID.
File No. 45-754
John Fann Mr Rev Fann
Act: 18 March 1818
Index:—Vol. 3 , Page 166
[Arrangement of 1870.]

(3453)
New Hampshire Roll
John Farns H
Private - Massachusetts line
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of New Hampshire at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 5 th of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 10 th of October 1818 and delivered to Edward Evans at Washington City -
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818 - 4mths \frac{30}{30} - 40: -
Semi-annual acct ending 4 th March 1819 - 48: -
6 years
$ 88: -
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Farm Croydon - Grafton (N.H.)

John Fann Apr 25
Correct
Found in Col. Bily Not for the war

State of New Hampshire
On this twenty fifth day of April in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred & eighteen & of the Independence of these United States the forty second. Before me William H Woodward Esquire Chief Justice of the Courts of Common Pleas in the second District in said State comprising the county of Cheshire came John Farn of Groton in said county a citizen of the United States & being duly sworn, made solemn Oath that the declaration hereunto annexed, by him subscribed is Just and true. The declaration aforesaid being made in Order to obtain the provisions made in and by an act of the Congress of the United States approved on the eighteenth day of March now last past. The said John Farn declar- -ing that he has no other evidence of his said service — I therefore hereby certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said John Farn served in the Continental establishment in the war of the revolution against the com- -mon enemy a longer term than nine months at one period of the war and that he now is in reduced circumstances & stands in need of his country's assistance for support — And I do also certify, that Henry Hutchinson Esquire is a Justice of the Peace within & for said county of Grafton duly authorized to take affidavits, that his attestation hereunto annexed is in due form and that full faith & credit is and ought to be given thereunto —
And I now transmit the declaration & affi- -davit aforesaid to the secretary of the Department of War, as the law requires.
In

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name & caused the seal of said Court to be hereunto affixed (no particular impression or device being used therefor) at Hanover in said District the day and year first before written.
Wm H Woodward

I John Fann of Croydon in the county of Cheshire and state of New Hampshire being a Citizen of the United States of the age of fifty nine years on oath declare that I served in the War of the Revolution against the common enemy - that I enlisted on the continental establishment, during the War, at Bridgewater Massachusetts in the month of February 1777 into a Company commanded by Capt. Ephraim Burr, in Col. Bailey's regiment in General Larned's brigade in the Massachusetts line and departed for the Army in March following and joined it at Albany the latter part of the same month or the first of April following - that in the year 1781 I was transferred to Col. Sprout's Regiment into Capt. Sewall's company in the line aforesaid and was afterwards placed in a company of Light Infantry under Captain Alden in the same Regiment - that I continued in said service from my said enlistment until the summer of 1783 when I received a written and honorable discharge from Col. Sprout which by time and accident I have since lost - that I was in the battle at Stillwater and the battle at Stony point - that I have no further evidence of my said service - and that for the year past I have received assistance as a pauper from said town of Croydon and from my natural circumstances need the assistance of my Country for support -
his John X Fann Mark
I hereby release all claim to any former pension under any law of the United States -
his John X Fann mark

I Axel Hough of Beloaun in the County of Grafton State of Newhampshire on oath declare that I have been well acquainted with John Fann of Croyden in the county of Cheshire for the last seventeen years - that he is destitute of property as far as I have been able to observe and that he is advanced in years and has no visible means of support but his hands - & in my opinion needs the assistance of his Country for Support.
Axel Hough
State of Newhampshire
Grafton ss. April 25. 1818 Then personally appearing the said Axel Hough made solemn oath that the above deposition by him subscribed contains the truth and nothing but the truth -
Before me
Henry Hutchinson Jys. Press